United States v. Soybel (7th Cir. September 2021)
Computer Crimes, Fourth Amendment, Recent Circuit Cases, Seventh Circuit
|The Seventh Circuit affirmed a defendant’s sentence for initiating cyber attacks against his former employer. The Court held that suppression was not warranted where agents monitored the defendant’s internet traffic through a pen register for IP addresses, which was not meaningfully distinguishable from a pen register for phone numbers.